On 11 December 2012 12:18, Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb@cybertec.at> wrote:
>>> Such mechanism already exist - you just need to set
>>> your PGresult pointer to NULL after each PQclear().
>>
>> So why doesn't PQclear() do that?
>
>
> Because then PQclear() would need a ** not a *. Do you want its
> interface changed for 9.3 and break compatibility with previous versions?
No, but we should introduce a new public API call that is safer,
otherwise we get people continually re-inventing new private APIs that
Do the Right Thing, as the two other respondents have shown.
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